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First of all I want to extend a H-U-G-E Thank you to the author for sending me a review copy. When she asked if I would like to have one, I damn near fell out of my computer chair. Then when I opened the package and had my hands on it I *Squee’d*again!!! I wish that this week hadn’t been so busy for me, I didn’t want to put it down, I just wanted to read and read and read haha!

Welcome to Bordertown – Hidden in, around, above, and below the Manhattan area it’s a place where demon, fae, and some humans coexist.

So the book starts out with our hero Luke and a dark and mysterious man named Maestro having a conversation of sorts. By sorts I mean that Maestro stabs Luke to see if the silver of his blade has any affect on him yet – seeing if his curse has taken affect or if he’s still “good”… Then he gives him an envelope from the League of the Black Swan (a supernatural police force type of organization) which contains a photograph of a young woman. Rio Jones…He’s seen her around his office when she delivers packages and thinks she’s absolutely stunning but he keeps his distance. He doesn’t need any distractions for the sort of control he has on his curse. So what’s the Black Swan want with a human Messenger??

Rio Jones is a woman of many names, and this had me laughing so hard, especially when she called herself Rio Holmes. Every time she’d meet someone new she would always come up with a new last name for herself. She’s a 24 year old woman who works for the bike messaging service of Bordertown. Grew up in an orphanage ran by a convent, and is still best friends with another girl from the orphanage, Clarice. I like the friendship these two have, they’re like sisters.

In the beginning of the book she witnesses a little girl get snatched up by a huge man and thrown into a limo while out on a delivery run. Rio has special ability with being able to hear peoples thoughts, and with what this guy was thinking not only was she worried for the little girls safety but now for hers. Knowing she’s got to pack up and leave where she was living behind she knows one man who can help her and that’s Luke Oliver, he’s a P.I. ,but she also knows he has powers as well.

Now that this case has made it impossible for Luke to keep his distance from Rio, they work together to try and find the little girl. This case is just the beginning of their relationship. And Ms. Day sure does GIVE us a relationship, let me tell ya 🙂 ! I really loved learning about Rio’s history and how she may not just be a measly human after all….

Key Elements I loved about the book:

-The Sex in this book is at the very top of this list. Can we say, “Oh my god!” Hot Hot Hot! And the first time they’re together had me cracking up!! If you read it you’ll know what I’m talking about 🙂 !!

-There are a lot of laugh out loud moments. In Bordertown with all of these different types of Fae and Demons you never know what’s going to happen. Like for instance, a giant duck laying an egg in the middle of the street. Then later when they had to give the egg back to the duck! HILARIOUS!

-When we meet Luke’s friend Alice, I LOVED her! I want to see more of her in the series as it progresses for sure!

-Anything that has to do with animals is a go for me, and her little familiar/pet fox Kitsune is adorable. You definitely don’t want to upset this “furface” as Luke likes to call her.

-The world she created for the story and how it’s nestled inside Manhattan with all of these different non-human creatures. This is why I love paranormal, I love anything Fae/Demon related. You can make up anything, your imagination has no limits and write what you love and excites you.

-The mention of them using a Crock Pot, hey I love my crock pot meals. I’d be lost without that thing, especially in the winter!

I loved everything about this book and can’t wait to read more of this awesome series.

The Cursed by Alyssa Day – Available May 7, 2013

“Rio, my name is Lucian” he growled. “I need you to say my name” – Luke

“I don’t know how to have all these feelings. I know how to blow stuff up. You were hurting, and I wanted to help, but I didn’t know how, so I blew something up.” – Luke

Since I have only been reading straight PNR for maybe a year now, this was my first Alyssa Day read. Sooooo because I liked this book so much I went to my book store and got what they had in stock! HA!!

Okay I really enjoyed this Paranormal Erotic Short by author Sophia Jones!!! This is her second shorty and you can really tell that she enjoys writing. This story had humor, sex, passion, creativity, and it all came together quite nicely. I was left wanting M-O-R-E!

Starts out with Michelle and her partner Seth working on site in Cairo, both are curators from a museum in Boston, MA. The opening line of the book, had me rolling, LOL.. I knew immediately I loved this author, she’s my kind of people. Ha Ha.. They’re working on getting a 60foot tall Obelisk raised using only the tools that the ancient Egyptians would have had available to them at the time.

After they had it raised and all the Hoorays are going on / people applauding each other for this great feat they accomplished, she notices a man appear. A delicious, bronzed skin man… Wearing Leopard Print LOL. Again, I died laughing at Michelle’s reaction to this sight. She thinks that the sun has gotten the best of her and doesn’t trust herself that this beautiful man is actually standing there, so she turns the head of her colleague to prove she’s not crazy. He confirms that there is indeed a man standing there, so after this discovery she breathes easy knowing she won’t be sleeping in a white padded room later. Then the giant Obelisk starts to fall over… Right in the direction of where the mystery man is standing. Michelle wastes no time getting to him and knocking him out of the way. She saves him by just a few mere feet from being pummeled down into the sand like a hammer to a nail. But after that’s all said and done things take a turn for the worst……

Although I would love to keep going with my thoughts of what’s going to happen and how it will all be resolved…. I won’t. Without wanting to “Reveal” too much more, I will stop here.

But I really have to hand it to Sophia, this story was just really cute. I love, love, loooooved the attitude the lead female Michelle had in the book. Her humor with a flare of snark was great and I can identify myself with her 🙂 .

“Our souls are connected, the same. We’re two parts of the same ka.”

“You and I have lived many lifetimes together. We don’t live and die in the same manner as human beings.”

Author Sophia Jones has a new Paranormal Erotic Romance short story out this Friday! For the first 5 days it will be Free to own thru Amazon.com.. Be sure to get in on this deal! =) Get it Free Here!

The Pharaoh and the Curator –“Unlucky in love museum curator Michelle Beaumont finds herself in Egypt where she contributes to god Amon Ra’s resurrection. His burning heat soon has her throwing caution to the desert winds, but a lurking danger threatens both of their souls.”

Okay so this book took me 2 weeks to get thru, mostly because it’s spring and I’ve been busy out in the yard/ housework, etc…

That being said, I really didn’t get into this book until about page 190. Kind of like V’s book it was just a little show for me, but I think it has a lot to do with the author adding a few other subplots with what’s going on with the other people and not just keeping the main focus on Phury and Cormia. Sometimes all the lesser talk will just put me to /snoreville, but I know it’s all extremely relevant so I won’t complain! I did not like Phury just losing control of himself and getting disgraced from the brotherhood 😦 ..

Phury and Cormia’s cat and mouse game they played with each other kind of miffed me. I was starting to think that for a while Cormia and John Matthew were going to start to have a little relationship bloom between them. But then it became obvious that JM has some strong feelings for bad girl Xhex.. Whether or not they come to be or anything happens between them… It’ll be interesting!

Since their story takes up about 25% of the book , all I’m really going to say about Phury and Cormia’s relationship is …. FINALLY, Phury can stop being celibate! I damn near clapped for him when he and his mate found their connection and fell in love!! He deserved it after having gone thru what he had for years of self torture.

KeyElementsI liked from the book ~~

When the Omega went back in time to impregnate a vampire to bear his son Lash.. Who by the end of the book after his transformation from being just a vampire to bad ass Lesser Vampire.. He is now the ultimate lesser.. With some pretty cool parlor tricks..

I loved loved loooooooved that Tohr is back, his reunion with John Matthew brought tears to my eyes, I was so happy for the both of them!!! I want to see more of this fallen angel Lassiter guy =)

I was kind of bumming that Phury and Cormia were going to live off of the compound away from the brotherhood. But they need to take care of all the chosen who decided to come to the far side to live so that is understandable. I don’t know, guess since they’ve all stuck together thus far, I just wanted it to stay that way haha.. At the end of the book when Phury is sitting alone outside listening to the Opera, and all of the sudden Z appears singing to him, then the whole brotherhood appears and asks if he and Cormia will come meet Nalla, Bella and Z’s daughter.. That was just awesome!

Rehv and his Princess… Their little deal they have going on once a month is very very interesting…

I really enjoyed the “Crossfire Series” by author Sylvia Day, and was ecstatic when I heard it will be coming to T.V. soon! Can’t wait to see how they bring the vision of Gideon and Eva to life!! She confirmed it to her fans on her Facebook page and also on her FAQ page.

Really enjoyed this story, it starts out with Alyssa who’s a very sought after graphics design artist that’s recently been hired on at one of Toronto’s largest firms as art director. She’s having a rough morning because she’s due to give a presentation and one of the owners of the company Mark Young will be there. Mark always has the last say as to what goes and what doesn’t. It also doesn’t help that ever since she got hired on two weeks ago she’s been having some intense dreams about a man she’s never met but does oh so wonderful things to her.

A little while later during the meeting she starts feeling a strange vibrating hum underneath her skin. With every second that passes they get more and more intense until the doors open and Mark Young comes bursting thru them. She then realized that he is the man she’s been dreaming about.. Her life changes drastically after that moment. I would of loved to have been a fly on the wall when he was standing in the doorway, eyes focused solely on her and he tells everyone except her to get out of the boardroom.. That to me was a pretty H-O-T moment. Hating the thought that now everyone in the office probably thinks that he is either dissatisfied with her work or they have something going on between them he assures her that he loves her work, and that there is something personal between them, she just doesn’t know it yet. Then after they talk for a bit he tells her if anything unusual happens to her, to give him a call.. I love how Ms. Lupton uses this mysterious/cryptic way to get the story started!

I Couldn’t put the book down for long that’s for sure, I had to know what was going to happen next with Mark and Alyssa and how their journey would end. Loveable characters, interesting plot, great ideas!

I also liked how the author threw in what movies they watched or music they were listening to, those are actually favorites of mine. Would love to have more, especially about the Brothers.

I absolutely found this book to be adorable. It was a quick, fun, and delightful read.

In the beginning of the book you have the Greek Gods Dionysus and Eryx bickering to each other that the god of wine “Dionysus” spends too much time gallivanting around with his booze and ladies, while the god of love “Eryx” wastes his time posing as mortals in the human realm pretending to be either a museum curator, professor, writer, or archaeologist. He just wants to ensure that the humans are doing the Greek Gods justice by making sure they have all their facts straight about their “myths” and handle their treasures properly. – Reading the first chapter alone I knew that I loved Ms. Leo’s humor and that this was going to be an entertaining read.

This time Eryx decides to take on the role of becoming the new director of The Toronto Museum. He thought that since it’s in the middle of renovations and that they have a nice sized inventory of Greek valuables, they could use his help. I fell in love with him very easily from the descriptive words the author uses to describe him (swooooon) and his charming personality/attitude. The things he says to Maia will make your heart flutter a lot!

Maia Douglas is a funny, witty, quirky, dorky, awkward and beautiful girl who is a curator at the Toronto Museum. Her father Dr. Jim Douglas is a famous archaeologist who’d founded most of the Greek collection housed in this museum so this is basically Maia’s second home. Word is getting around that the new Director Eric Lord will be arriving soon and that he is pretty ruthless when it comes to “cleaning house”. It’s no secret that she’s very fond of the Greek statue Eryx The God of Love in the Greek section of the museum, so when the God himself walks in the museum in his mortal guise as Eric Lord, I’d love to have seen the look on her face thinking the man of her dreams has come true!

I loved this character and immediately identified with her for her awkwardness and loved that she was passionate for things others would deem her for being a geek. More people need to be like this instead of thinking they need to hide what they love doing from others!!

There were some great lines/thoughts in this book that had me laughing out loud and rereading them after I’d stopped laughing just to start laughing again..

-“Last I heard he was farming cattle somewhere.” He rolled his eyes. “He’s always been curiously fond of cows.” – Talking about the Greek God Zeus

-Death by chicken wing seemed like such a strange way to go. – Maia

-Maia had seen a lot of flamboyant gay bars. This one was flaming hotter than a pink flamingo on fire.

Will definitely recommend this to a friend and continue on with the series, Thanks Rosanna Leo for a great read:)

Ellie is working undercover at a pharmaceutical company stealing documents and proof that they are doing illegal experiments by combining human and animal DNA to form a “New Species”.. While doing this she falls for Subject #416 “Fury”.

So Ellie saves Fury from a doomed fate when she murders a lab tech before he had the chance to kill Fury. She then had to make it look like Fury did it in order for her to be able to leave the building since she had valuable information on her about the company, the kind that would convince a Judge to sign a warrant and get rid of all the illegal experiments and set the “New Species” free once and for all. Fury didn’t understand this at the time, so obviously this didn’t sit too well with him.. He swore he would kill her if he ever saw her again.

After the “New Species” are set free and are transferred to a place for them all to live, he finds out Ellie works there as a house mother to a dorm of females. He then becomes fixated on her confused about both falling for her and his animal side with wanting to kill her….

This story has both its ups and downs, I love love looooove the fresh idea of the animalistic species that they’ve created. The descriptions of the “New Species” were pretty neat with the feline-like & canine-like features. The whole time I read the book I kept thinking about how in the movie “Avatar” , the avatars were substantially larger than the humans, so I kind of thought that’s how the “New Species” would have probably been, except obviously not a few feet taller than the humans but still, pretty big.. I liked the females of the “New Species” and that they called Ellie their Poodle since she has long curly blonde hair, pretty humorous that they called the human a pet. The scene where they all followed her into the elevator and up to her apartment was really comical.

All in all I’d say that Fury is very much a dominating male.. Ellie is great at playing submissive, but she could have at least put up a better fight in the beginning of the book where Fury is “Punishing” her, that was a bit…fast and slightly felt a little wrong to read, that’s probably my biggest “Down” of this book..

One thing that made me laugh is when people would address Fury by Mr. Fury, I chuckled when I read that a few times.

I thought this was a deliciously fast fun read. This author definitely knows how to raise your eyebrows at some seriously HOT moments, and has some great one-liners to add to this mix..

Story starts off with a typical girl at a party her friend dragged her to. This party is hosted at Knight Sebring’s swanky apartment, only Knight didn’t invite all of these people to the party.. His brother did. Anya wants to leave and finds herself in a sexy-scary situation, her cell phone is a piece of garbage and won’t hold a charge for longer than an hour so she goes to find her coat to leave and taxi it home and ends up seeing the next best thing, which is a land line. Only when she starts to use it she realizes that she’s in a very pissed off Knight Sebring’s bedroom.

From the first moment they meet Knight is this demanding, controlling, sexual man that can’t get enough of Anya. The things that come out of this mans mouth make you want Anya to tell him to get lost, but at the same time want her to just stay with him.

I like how the author describes Anya as a normal not model perfect woman. The scene where She and Knight are in bed naked for the first time and she describes her Buddha belly to him I almost DIED LAUGHING!!! That was hysterical, and it gives us other Buddha belly owning (too many beers) women hope of finding a man like Knight =)

I was shocked near the end of the book to learn that Knight (given his past) has some extracurricular activities on the side with running his Club. Interesting how that turns out, I get it tho, he familiarizes himself with that nature since he grew up in that world so he would more or less think of himself as “Protecting” the women and trying to make their jobs easier on them, rather than them walking the streets unprotected. Like a high end Madame service only run by a handsome dominant.

The end of the story didn’t quite suit my expectations because I was hoping he would change his ways and break a few of his rules for Anya and marry her. I did like that he loved knowing he was going to be a father, and that it was a baby girl instead of what he wanted which was a boy haha:).

Ahhhhhh I’m so excited about tonight! The moderators of this Goodreads group that Sky and I are in worked very hard to see this happen for us ! It will be from 7:00-9:00 pm est for the group “Gotta have Paranormal Romance with a Kick”.

Our questions/comments:

Sky ~~~ Hi there Ms.Ione! I’ve been looking forward to this for a while, it’s an honor to be able to chat with such a talented lady as yourself =) I only had one question today, a silly one. I love cuddling up in bed and reading, and most often my hubby is lying next to me, he doesn’t read at all, so I’ll be playful and read to him chapters from different books. I love to see his reaction to the things I’ve read him from this genre! I guess he never expects something like that could be “read”, rather than be “watched” haha

I guess I just wonder, with so many WELL described erotica scenes, and of, well…male member lengths, has your husband ever read or heard any chapters, scenes and such from your novels, and how does he react? Great approval on his side I hope =D

Krystle ~~ Squeee!! Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us Larissa! I fell in love with your Demonica and LoD series over this past summer, and I’ve been spreading your name around to my friends like wild fire ever since!

I actually read “Pleasure Unbound” when I took my first plane ride (by myself), so you pretty much kept my mind at ease during that adventure. So a big THANKS for that 🙂 Like you I am a huge animal lover, which is why I groom dogs for a living and I love all of the pictures you put up on Facebook of your king shepherd “Hexe”. She’s gorgeous and seems to love life!

1. I’m going to be a little naughty here and ask what I have been wondering about for a while haha.. When your write your naughty scenes in your book, do you ever ask your hubby for ideas so you can get a males perspective to go with yours? =P

2. With your dogs name being “Hexe” which clearly goes with the style of your writing, are you ever going to use it in any of your books as a character name?